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| Name | Date Discovered | Comments |
| Raceway, The | 03/15/1988 | A large walking passage where Darren "raced" the tape as Coleen was reeling it in, thus the name. Jim Nepstad, Darren Ressler, Erik Major, & Coleen Walter |
| Rachel's Fissure | 10/?/1989 | The fissure that leads to the point that Rachel Cox was rescued from. |
| Radio GaGa | 07/11/1992 | Skip Withrow, Paul Burger, & Stan Allison |
| Raft Hall | 11/2/1990 | A passage with lots of calcite cave rafts. |
| Ragtime Crawl | 10/10/1992 | Crawl named after Randy's nickname, "Rags". Dave & Steve Lester, Randy Brown, Kirk Haley, Melissa Lester |
| Randys Doghouse | 03/13/1993 | James Wilson, Kevin Reynolds, Randy Brown, & Eric Dutton |
| Raped Ape | 03/21/1987 | A 50-foot high fissure passage named in honor of Greg. Led to the Cakewalk discovery. Jim and Greg Nepstad, Darren Ressler |
| Railroad Junction | Named for the many promising looking leads leading from this room. Unfortunately all the leads apparently soon end. John Scheltens & ? | |
| Rainbow Beehive | 02/17/1989 | An amazing section of wall where dogtooth impressions give the area a beehive or honeycomb appearance. The individual facets reflected the colors of the rainbow from their lights. Jim Nepstad, Darren Ressler, Bob Kobza, & Marc Lamphere |
| Rainbow Falls | An area with much multi-colored flowstone. Mapped in 1979 by instructors from NOLS | |
| Rainbow Rooms | 12/11/1993 | Two large rooms with brightly colored, banded sediment. Discovered by the survey crew after doing a five-minute dig to brush some rocks to the side of a belly crawl. Rod Horrocks, Clair Call, Kevin Pippen, Joel Despain and Doug Kent. |
| Rat Scat Room | 08/30/1987 | Steve Matson, R. J. Johnson, & Juan Laden, & Alan O'Brian |
| Raymer Room | 03/06/1905 | Named after Mr. Raymer, an 81-year old visitor. John Stabler and Mr. Raymer |
| Rebel River | 08/01/1970 | A three-inch wide, one-inch deep stream named after its discoverer, Nelson "Rebel" Kuniansky. Nelson Kuniansky and Chris Hill. |
| Reception Room | 07/29/1891 | A.C. McBride and Alvin McDonald. |
| Recovery Room | 09/11/1993 | A small 5-foot high room at the end of a long bellycrawl. Dave Lester, Rich Wolfert, & Kirk Haley |
| Red Chert Room | ||
| Red Clay Room | There is a large area of paleokarst in this room. Most paleokarst in Wind Cave consist of a breccia with broken limestone and chert in a red clay matrix. Alan Howard | |
| Red Crawl | 12/?/1971 | Nelson Kuniansky, Dave Larson, & Andy Flurkey |
| Red Crystal Canyon | 08/29/1969 | The crystals coating the walls of this lower level passage are distinctly red. Rich Breisch, Ed Crawford and Jens Munthe |
| Red Hall | 06/05/1884 | A room that has a red, sandy, micaceous clay bank associated with paleofill. Also known as the Beauty Parlor. L.C. Faris, Frank Halden and Charlie Roe |
| Red Mylar Survey Market | 03/14/1992 | Max Mazur, David Coles, Randy Macan, & Chris Collins |
| Rescue Pits #1 & #2 | 12/29/1971 | Pits which bypass the Boxwork Chimney down to the Calcite Jungle. They would be used in the event of a cave rescue. Mike Francik, Carole Loskot and Mark Stock |
| Rescue Route | 11/23/1991 | The route that Bob and Stan found a few hours after Paul had jumped down the "Unclimable Pit" into Blind Faith. Stan Allison, Paul Burger, Bob Kobza, & Jim Erickson |
| Rescue Stairs | The steep stairs that led from the Assembly Room up to the Garden of Eden Route. This stairs are used when the Elevator is not working. Originally known as "Cliff-Climbers Delight". | |
| Resister, The | 12/5/1998 | Very tight restriction that led to Pizza Hut. It was named after the largest person to fit through the squeeze, Marc Ohms. "Ohms" means resistance in electronics. Marc Ohms, Myk Coughlin, Rene Rogers, and Mike Wiles |
| Resonance Fissure | 6/13/1992 | A high and narrow fissure that voices resonated in. Steve Smith, Kevin Smith, & Becky Ward |
| Resonator, The | 1974 | |
| Rest Stop | 12/08/1980 | This area gets its name from the fact that it is located right off the Silent Expressway. Tom Miller, John Scheltens, Pete Shiflett and Mike Wiles |
| Resurectum, The | 01/08/2000 | Evan Anderson, Pat Roberson, Shawn Kramer, & Micah Ball |
| Rhinoceros Jaws | ||
| Ribbon Room | 11/09/1996 | Evan Anderson & Skip Withrow |
| Right-On Room | 12/09/1987 | This 60-foot diameter room was first entered by Bob Kobza. Before he got into the room he and Shaun Larson were both checking separate leads both of which went. Shaun wanted the survey to go his way but Bob prevailed by saying that his way led to a really big room. When Shaun entered the room he said, "Right on, Bob!", and that became the name of the room. Entered through the Porcelain Passage. Bob Kobza, Shaun Larson and Jim Pisarowicz |
| Ripleys Chamber | 09/14/1991 | Vi Allured, Pat Seiser, & Louise Hose |
| Ripple Marks | An area with a ripple mark floor located near the Muddle Room. | |
| Rita Room | 01/01/1991 | Jim Nepstad, Bob Kobza, & Stan Allison |
| Road Block | A large piece of breakdown blocks this hands and knees crawl and forces one to crawl on ones stomach. Area first traversed by the Conns & Schnute but probably named by the Windy City Grotto. Herb and Jan Conn and Dave Schnute | |
| Road D, Lower | 12/15/1984 | This fissure passage has both an upper and lower component. The passage is named after Assistant Chief Naturalist (and Cave Specialist) Kay Rohde (pronounced Upper "Row-D"). Warren Netherton and Jim Pisarowicz |
| Road D, Upper | 12/15/1984 | This fissure passage has both an upper and lower component. The passage is named after Assistant Chief Naturalist (and Cave Specialist) Kay Rohde (pronounced Upper "Row-D"). Warren Netherton and Jim Pisarowicz |
| Robin's Nest | 07/29/1972 | Andy Flurkey, Robert Lenz and John Scheltens |
| Rock Room | 02/08/1992 | Dave Lester, Bob Stucklen, Rich Wolfert, Amy Johnson |
| Rocky Road | 10/23/1980 | A knobby little crawl beyond Silent Expressway. John Scheltens, Dave Springhetti and Mike Wiles |
| Roe's Misery | 1894 | A narrow bellycrawl where an early guide named Roe got stuck and had to be pulled out by ropes. The McDonalds spent a great deal of time enlarging this area. |
| Rolling Ballroom | 05/17/1991 | Bob Kobza, Jim Nepstad, Stan Allison and Mike Paulick |
| Roman Candle Room | 09/09/1999 | Moderate sized room just off of Rome where the surveyors found a candle, candle wax drippings, and lots of string left behind by early explorers. Surveyed by Rod Horrocks, Matt Tucker and Zach Guido |
| Rome | 07/04/1891 | This large room, although first discovered in 1891, was eventually to be the key to getting into the vast western parts of Wind Cave. It was from this area that Herb and Jan Conn and Dave Schnute eventually found the Spillway which blew open Wind Cave. Alvin McDonald M.E. and Willie Crookam and G.W. Lee |
| Roman Catacombs | 08/03/1999 | An extensive breakdown/boneyard maze below Rome. Extends westward to fill in the area between the Muddle Room and Upper Rome. Survyed by Rod Horrocks, Graham Hogg, John-Paul Sicotte, & Rainer Engler |
| Romance Chamber | 4/21/1988 | A room next to the 1897 Room. |
| Rookery | 06/05/1884 | Also called the Animal Cracker Room. L.C. Faris, Frank Halden and Charlie Roe |
| Rookies Room | 09/16/1991 | A room that was named because two of the surveyors were new to their positions and the other two were new to caving. Bill Hawn, Murray Vogel, Steve Huck, & Bob Phillips |
| Room Draculum | 02/19/1891 | This room is also called the Wind River Circle. Surveyed on 04/28/1980 by a NOLS survey crew (Jim Lesh, Jenny Lee, Eric Hegastead, Steve Lonis, Kathy Bogan). J.M. Moore and Alvin McDonald |
| Room of the Rising Sun | 01/17/1986 | Jim Nepstad, Mike Paulick, Bob Kobza, & Louise Hose |
| Root Cellar | 01/01/1991 | Only 18-feet below the surface, tree roots are seen in this small room. Jim Nepstad, Bob Kobza, & Stan Allison |
| Root Room | 10/09/1993 | Evan Anderson, Steve Lester & Alex Fong |
| Rose Bowl | 01/01/1991 | Jim Nepstad, Bob Kobza, & Stan Allison |
| Root Room, The | 10/09/1993 | Evan Anderson, Steve Lester, & Alex Fong |
| Rouse Rock Room | 11/03/1986 | The red clay in this room gives the room its name. Jim Pisarowicz & Bob Kobza |
| Route 66 | 03/01/1992 | Large passage, 30-feet high and 30-70 feet wide that continued for 600 feet, where the cave passed 66 miles in total surveyed length. Bob Kobza, Jim Nepstad, Stan Allison and Harry Burgess |
| Royal Pilasters | 07/04/1891 | M.E. and Willie Crookam, George Lee and Alvin McDonald |
| RTD Bus Hall | 09/14/1991 | Stan Allison, Paul Burger, & Dawn Reed |
| Ruby Peak | 07/12/1891 | A.C. McBride and Alvin McDonald |
| Ruse Rock Room | 11/03/1986 | A series of small crawls into a small room with red clay. As Bob Kobza crawled into this room he accidentally smeared some of this red clay on his face. Bob Kobza and Jim Pisarowicz |
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